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I am Neuroscience PhD, a humanist, skeptic, feminist, avid reader, science enthusiast, woolly-liberal über-nerd, and, as of October 2015, father to the Lykketroll.

I moved from England to Norway in January 2012 and live in Lørenskog with my wife, the Lykketroll, and our two aging rescue cats, Socrates and Schrödinger.

I am on paternity leave from the 4th of July to the 18th of November.

The job I am on leave from is as an Associate Professor and Head of Studies at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. My background is in child neurodevelopment (my PhD looked into the relationship between fatty acids like omega-3 and cognitive development in young children) but I now work on a hodge-podge of things roughly within the field of Universal Design of ICT 50% of the time, the other 50% of my time I am Head of the 'General' Studies (Allmenn in Norwegian) Unit, which is comprised of around 24 academics within a range of fields, including mathematics, physics, Norwegian, and technology and leadership.

In between working and doing the usual dad things, I like hiking and running in the beautiful Norwegian outdoors, cooking and playing video games.

Can't spend time (and money) on #running so I'll be spend time (and money) on reading about running instead. Starting with some of the obvious picks, but already have a bunch of other books lined up #anyexcuse #bookworm #shouldhavesharesinBookDespository #masochism

I may still be on partial sick leave but that's not going to stop me working on planning the @tkd.hioa stand at this year's @forskningsdagene! #computerscience #lego #AI #ibmwatson #minecraft #htcvive #vr #3dprinting

First of what looks to be a bumper batch of delicious, sweet #plums from the tree in the back yard. #plumseason

Fired up the #Garmin for the first time since The Snappening and saw the ~2km route I'd run. Did a genuine laugh with noise when I saw the speed chart go from 8.3km to 0 in the blink of an eye. Despite the tricky situation I was in, I still had the presence of mind to stop the watch having remembered that I always turn autostop off when #trailrunning #running #rescuemission #ouch